Over at the Goodbye, Microsoft web site, Brad R. takes Ubuntu to task for abandoning dial-up modem users. Apparently Ubuntu no longer includes the GnomePPP dial-up package in the distribution, without which you can't get online via dial-up. It gets better: if you do have some way to connect, when you download something from the Ubuntu repository, the first thing Ubuntu does is update its 16+ megabyte repository index. Happy waiting! Brad concludes that "Ubuntu is for broadband users only."

Well, to be honest ... we're [almost all] on some sort of broadband these days, so this is not a shocker.
However, I would be satisfied with PPP procesess being disabled in systems which do not use PPP connections.
There's no need to remove it all, actually. They're at DVD size anyway ...